After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.

My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.